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I stumbled into public speaking when I attended Singapore Global CFP Diversity Day in March 2019, and subsequently got my first CFP submission accepted a few months later. Since then, I have delivered more than 10 talks at various tech conferences regionally and internationally. As I can get pretty self-conscious when delivering talks in public (especially in remote settings), I consider myself a work-in-progress speaker who is constantly learning from the audience and fellow established speakers on the international conference speaking circuit.

After 2 power-packed years of speaking at virtual conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic (including EuroPython and PyData Global for 2 consecutive years), I went on a speaking break in 2022 to refocus on other pursuits that contribute direct ROI such as my full-time role as a Senior Data Engineer and other revenue-generating side hustles. With the return of in-person events, do look out for my upcoming talks that are in the pipeline!

In the meantime, I would greatly appreciate it if you could:

1. Check out my recorded talks in the Past Talks section.
2. Drop me a hello if you enjoyed and/or have learnt something interesting from any of my talks.

Upcoming talks

I am currently selectively available for discussion on potential talks and collaborations on the following topics:

1. Change-Aware Dimensional Data Modeling in the Modern Data Stack
2. Machine Learning Operations in Digital Banking
3. Emotional Regulation for Technical Leaders

Please reach out to me if you would like to collaborate and sponsor my next conference talk.

Past talks

Exclusives

• 11 November 2020: Wanted Spotlight - Breaking Data Episode 3: "How to Build Your Data Career Like A Business"

Invited Keynote

• 12 December 2020: "Is Rainfall Getting Heavier? Building a Weather Forecasting Pipeline with Singapore Weather Station Data" at PyCode Conference 2020
  • First Keynote!
  • Recording courtesy of PyCode Conference

Conference

• 9 September 2024: Modeling Data Fast, Slow and Back-In-Time: Change-Aware Dimensional Data Modeling in the Modern Data Stack at Postgres Ibiza 2024

• 15 April 2023: Modeling Data Fast, Slow and Back-In-Time: Change-Aware Dimensional Data Modeling in the Modern Data Stack at FOSSASIA Summit 2023

  • Recording courtesy of FOSSASIA

• 20 November 2021: Designing Functional Data Pipelines for Reproducibility and Maintainability at PyCon APAC 2021

  • Pre-recorded talk with live Q&A segment, post-processed by PyCon Thailand

• 29 October 2021: Designing Functional Data Pipelines for Reproducibility and Maintainability at PyData Global 2021

  • Next-day Zoom cloud recording

• 29 July 2021: Designing Functional Data Pipelines for Reproducibility and Maintainability at EuroPython 2021

  • Re-recorded due to live technical issues, recording courtesy of EuroPython 2021

• 21 February 2021: "Is Rainfall Getting Heavier? Building a Weather Forecasting Pipeline with Singapore Weather Station Data" at FOSDEM 2021 Python Devroom

  • Pre-recorded talk, post-processed by FOSDEM 2021 Python Devroom

• 6 December 2020: "Seeing Data in Multiple Dimensions: Hierarchical Indexing in Pandas and How to Visualize Them" at PyJamas 2020

  • Recording courtesy of PyJamas 2020

• 6 December 2020: "Is Rainfall Getting Heavier? Building a Weather Forecasting Pipeline with Singapore Weather Station Data" at PyJamas 2020

  • Livestream recording courtesy of PyJamas 2020

• 15 November 2020: "Speed Up Your Data Processing: Parallel and Asynchronous Programming in Data Science" at PyData Global

  • Pre-recorded talk, post-processed by PyData Global

• 6 September 2020: Speed Up Your Data Processing: Parallel and Asynchronous Programming in Data Science at PyCon Taiwan 2020

  • Recording courtesy of PyCon Taiwan

• 23 July 2020: Speed Up Your Data Processing at EuroPython 2020

  • Recording courtesy of EuroPython

• 25 April 2020: Just-in-Time with Numba at Remote Python Pizza

• 20 March 2020: Speed Up Your Data Processing: Parallel and Asynchronous Programming in Python at FOSSASIA Summit 2020

  • Recording courtesy of FOSSASIA

• 1 December 2019: Making Open Weather Data More Accessible: Extracting Seasonal Insights from Singapore Weather Station Data at OpenUP Global Summit 2019

  • Recording courtesy of Open UP Summit

• 31 August 2019: How to Make Your Data Processing Faster: Parallel Processing and JIT in Data Science at Women Who Code CONNECT Asia 2019

  • Recording courtesy of Engineers.SG

Panel

• 20 November 2021: "What are the Cornerstones Every Big Data Environment Should Have to be Successful?" at PyCon APAC 2021

• 28 October 2021: How to Get Started with Your Data Science Career at PyData Global 2021 Impact Program

• 18 January 2020: "The conference speaking experience" at Global CFP Diversity Day (Singapore) 2020 edition

  • Recording courtesy of Engineers.SG

Meetup

• 12 April 2023: Modeling Data Fast, Slow and Back-In-Time: Change-Aware Dimensional Data Modeling in the Modern Data Stack at Data Engineering Singapore

• 30 March 2023: Your data is not static: Snapshots and incremental models for change data capture at Singapore dbt Meetup

• 11 June 2021: MAE Alumni Sharing on Transition to the Data Sciences Industry

• 28 March 2020: Just-in-Time with Numba at PyLadies International Women's Month Lightning Talks

• 14 January 2020: Exploring Seasonal Insights from Singapore Weather Station Data at JuniorDevSG Code and Tell

  • Recording courtesy of Engineers.SG

• 28 November 2019: Contributing to pandas documentation for the first time - lessons from open source at Women Who Code Singapore TalksDev #5

  • Recording courtesy of Engineers.SG

• 27 August 2019: Parallel Processing in Python at Python User Group Singapore Meetup